Anita and I have just come back from a two week trip to London, Colchester and Paris. The main reason we planned the trip was to meet Anita’s grandma, who lives in Colchester, and because we were already sorta 1/2 way there, in Singapore, the journey was one we had set our minds to for quite a while now. Anita had never met her grandma before this trip so there was a lot to look forward to, as well as playing tourist around the streets of London and Paris.
Our Holiday to London
In total, I think we took over 500 photos and will have to find some time soon to edit those and put together a nice coffee table book using iPhoto, so for the moment i’ve just put a few of the photos I took using my iPhone and Camera+.
Big Ben & Westminster
I took these couple of shots while on the upper deck of a Big Bus Company hop on, hop off tour we went on. The day was a scorcher and we toured around London and saw all the famous landmarks, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral and The Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
We went and checked out the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace, as you do, there were a good number of people there too, it was bloody packed! Americans, Kiwis, Israeli as well as a large number of French students who seemed to invade most places we were in London. We saw and old lady walk from the palace while all the shenanigans were going on, Anita turned to me and asked if it was the Queen, wish we got a photo of it, she did look very similar, but unfortunately it was someone else.
I took this shot outside Buckingham Palace after the Changing of the Guards and gave it a couple of nostalgic effects to try and convey the sombre expression that Queen Victoria has on her face in the statue.
Other Bits & Pieces
This was taken a couple of days after a London Men’s Convention, we were there on the day of the convention and were surprised to see thousands of men all streaming for the hall, we found out later that it was a Christian thing.
We ended up seeing St Paul’s about 3 times on the trip for some strange reason, maybe it was because of Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe which was just down the road.
This was taken at a London Underground station while we were on our way to Hammersmith Station to then walk to Barnes and see Jon & Ronnie for a couple of nights.
We had lunch at this pub in Tottenham when we were staying with Jon & Ronnie in Barnes, Neetles loved her Fish & Chips and my Bangers & Mash were awesome too, washed down with a couple of bottles of Bulmers Cider and all was good with the world!
We had the most amazing time in London staying in and around Kensington, the food was to die for, a few trips to Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s was a nice change after being stuck in Singapore with their limited product range at Cold Storage. Unfortunately we ran out of time to see everyone that we had planned on seeing, especially Sis but thing’s just didn’t work out as easy as first planned. That said I do think we will be back to London before we leave Singapore, we just had too much of a good time not to!
And that was it, next stop Colchester, Essex to meet Anita’s Grandma
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